Engine-link



.(No Model.)

' J. A. STILES' & G P. CROSS.

ENGINE LINK.

No; 416,965. Patented Dec. 10, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

JAMES A. STILES AND GEORGE F. CROSS, OF ST. .IOHNS, MICHIGAN.

ENGINE-LINK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,965, dated December 10, 1889.

Application filed June 14, 1889- Serial No. 314,290. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES A. STILES and GEORGE F. GROSS, citizens of the United States, residing at St. Johns, in the county of Clinton and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Engine- Links; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The special object of our invention is to combine the parts of alink of areversible engine, so that the wear may be readily taken up and so that the wearing-pieces may be easily replaced.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a longitudinal section of a reversible engine-link; Fig. 2, a cross-section thereof; Fig. 3, an end view of the wedge; Fig. 4, a detail view of the latch; Fig. 5, an end view of piece E.

In the drawings, A represents the shell of our link, and B the wedges. The latter have on opposite sides the dovetail tenons Z; b, which work in the corresponding grooves a c of the shell and'wearing part C.

I) is the opening for the piece E, which is to be clamped and held by the wearing part 0.

F is a double latchtulerumed atthemiddle hole f upon the pivot H and provided with the openings f f one near each end, but upon opposite sides.

G are draw-bolts, which are tapped into the ends of the wedges B, so as to adjust them as may be desired, while the doublelatch F holds them securely in whatever position they may occupy.

I is a re-enforcin g bolt to the shell and passes through the slots 1) b of the wedges B.

The shell A has ears a for a false Wearing part, which, together with the Wearing part 0, may be readily replaced when too much worn for further use.

Having thus described all that is necessary to a full understanding of our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is-

In a reversible engine-link, the combination of the shell A, having grooves a, the wearing part 0, having grooves c, the wedges B, having opposite tenons Z? I), the draw-bolts G, and the double latch F, whereby the piece E may be clampedin the opening D and the wear taken up, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES A. S'PILES. GEORGE F. CROSS.

Witnesses;

O. F. BIsHoP,

FRANK A. FAXON. 

